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Koko Wants to Move to New Preserve

Koko signs 'Hurry'

Date Added: 2002-02-08

It is 11:00 am and has started raining. Koko sought shelter in the covered, enclosed small yard, and stayed out for a few minutes, but with the 45 degree temperature, she decided to go back into her rooms. Inside, I got out photos of the site from my most recent trip to Maui and showed them to Koko, displaying the panoramic set first.

Penny: Maui. As Koko looks at the photos she signs ... Koko Visit, mean-visit mail there. The photos came in a mailer-like envelope. I show more and explain, Penny: This is the foundation for the play yard. She signs ... Koko Nut there. Penny: Yes, we could put nuts there. (Lately we have been tossing donated nuts in the shell into her play yards.)

We look at most of the rest of the photos and I narrate that we are working on moving there, with explanations of the pipes and trees and roads in the pictures. When we get to the second to the last onea lovely one showing the site and the trees and ocean beyond, Koko signs ... Koko All there hurry!

Then as I get out the second set Koko hold up some flowered fabric to show me, Koko That (to the flowers). Penny: We need flowers there, that's right! That's what's missing, isn't it?

Next we look at the second set. Penny: Spacious place! Koko Good. Penny: This is where the construction is. Koko Good. Penny: There are banana plants growing there, and grass.

When we get to the next to the last in this set, of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Loyal Nordstrom, Koko signs ... Koko: Look there. (To Loyal in a long flowered dress, with her nearby and nicely forested property in the background.) Koko: There. (Again to Loyal.) Penny: Friends there and nice trees.